Acclaimed Photographer Brings Art To Shaker Heights

SHAKER HEIGHTS, OH — An acclaimed photographer is bringing his latest exhibit to Shaker Heights. Donald Black Jr., whose work explores the nearby Mt. Pleasant neighborhood, will share images from his series A Day No One Will Remember in the Shaker Community Gallery.

The exhibit will open to the public on July 11. An opening event will be held from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Black calls Mt. Pleasant the "gunshot side of Shaker." While living in Shaker Heights, Black has made a commitment to create art in and with the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood. He has photographed people in their everyday life, living in the neighborhood, and created bold photos of black children in the area.

“They remind me of me,” says Black. “These are the people that I want to live forever. These are the missing images in the worldwide database of photo history.”

“Art is a bridge to understanding,” says SCG co-founder Leslye Arian. “If we allow ourselves, art opens us to see and feel more clearly the difference between insider and outsider perspectives of living a life.”

Black's art has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland and his murals are visible at five different locations throughout Cleveland, including two walls on the Harvey Rice Branch of the Cleveland Public Library.

On Wednesdays, the gallery will host community conversations about the exhibit starting at 7 p.m. On August 7, Ali McClain, a poet, educator, consultant and youth advocate, will perform from her writings and poetry in the gallery. Finally on August 22, Reverend Peter Faass, rector, Christ Episcopal Church, will discuss missing images from the Bible.

A Day No One Will Remember will be on exhibit at the gallery through September 8. The gallery will be open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and on Saturdays from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.

More information on the Shaker Community Gallery can be found by clicking here.

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